My Favorites from Past Year

Happy 2012! I am writing this post later than I had planned, but a New Year’s resolution (other than not procrastinating) got in the way, and well… I procrastinated.  Anyway, these are a few of my favorite images from this past year.  They aren’t necessarily my most marketable photos, but are my favorites of what I love to photograph, and I hope you...

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Eastern Sierra Time-Lapse Photography

  If you don’t have hours to spend lying on your back watching the clouds float by, you can compress a few hours of photos into a minute or less, and enjoy the clouds in a time-lapse video. Since I’m a big fan of clouds, and because I’m lucky enough to live in one of the best cloudspotting locations on Earth, I’ve been making time-lapses of clouds for...

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Nocturnal Photography in the Owens Valley

While searching for an appropriate rock outcrop to light-paint in Buttermilk Country west of Bishop, I inadvertently found a large rock with a crack that looked familiar.  This was the rock made “famous” by Galen Rowell and his photo of “Split Rock and Cloud” on the cover of his book, “Mountain Light.”  I was after something altogether different, trying to...

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Aerial Photography in the Owens Valley

There is nothing like getting up in a small plane to give you the lay of the land, and there is no substitute for the perspective that an aerial photo can provide. I needed some images of the Bishop area for a book project I’m working on, and so I decided to hire Geoff Pope of Black Mountain Air Service to take me up for an early morning spin above the northern...

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